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## IntechOpen Book Series Infectious Diseases

Volume 29

### Aims and Scope of the Series

This series will provide a comprehensive overview of recent research trends in various Infectious Diseases (as per the most recent Baltimore classification). Topics will include general overviews of infections, immunopathology, diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology, etiology, and current clinical recommendations for managing infectious diseases. Ongoing issues, recent advances, and future diagnostic approaches and therapeutic strategies will also be discussed. This book series will focus on various aspects and properties of infectious diseases whose deep understanding is essential for safeguarding the human race from losing resources and economies due to pathogens.

## Meet the Series Editor

Dr. Rodriguez-Morales is an expert in tropical and emerging diseases, particularly zoonotic and vector-borne diseases (notably arboviral diseases), and more recently COVID-19 and Monkeypox. He is the president of the Publications and Research Committee of the Pan-American Infectious Diseases Association (API), as well as the president of the Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases (ACIN). He is a member of the Committee on Tropical Medicine,

Zoonoses, and Travel Medicine of ACIN. Dr. Rodriguez-Morales is a vice-president of the Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI) and a member of the Council of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID). Since 2014, he has been recognized as a senior researcher at the Ministry of Science of Colombia. He is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, in Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia, and a professor, Master in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, at Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru. He is also a non-resident adjunct faculty member at the Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, and an external professor, Master in Research on Tropical Medicine and International Health, at Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Additionally, an invited professor, Master in Biomedicine, at Universidad Internacional SEK, Quito, Ecuador, and a visiting professor, Master Program of Epidemiology, at Diponegoro University, Indonesia. In 2021 he was awarded the "Raul Isturiz Award" Medal of the API and, the same year, the "Jose Felix Patiño" Asclepius Staff Medal of the Colombian Medical College due to his scientific contributions to the topic of COVID-19 during the pandemic. He is currently the Editor in Chief of the journal Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases. His Scopus H index is 55 (Google Scholar H index 77) with a total of 725 publications indexed in Scopus.

## Meet the Volume Editors

Linda Eva Amoah, Associate Professor of Immunology at the University of Ghana's Noguchi Memorial Institute, specializes in malaria elimination, malaria diagnostics, asymptomatic infections, gametocyte biology, and transmission-blocking immunity. She is the Principal Investigator for several grants, including some awarded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Research Institute for Develop-

ment (IRD). She serves on the editorial board for Frontiers and other journals and has published more than seventy scientific articles.

Festus Kojo Acquah, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Ghana's Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, has expertise in protein purification, malaria parasite cultures and drug assays, mosquito standard protocols, and gene cloning. He has published several scientific articles.

Kwame Kumi Asare, Ph.D., is a biomedical scientist with expertise in infectious and non-communicable diseases and a research fellow at the University of Cape Coast. He has published several scientific articles.

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